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Kevin FrechFOUNDATION AND EMPIRE, 2018HD Video, color, two-channel mono sound, 3:00On loan from the Artist On view in the E. Craig Wall, Jr. Academic Center from October 4 - November 21st, 2020. Please note: All buildings on campus, including the Wall Center, are only open to Davidson students, faculty, and staff due to the pandemic. We are planning to re-screen videos at a later date when the campus opens to the community! Sign up for our mailing list to stay in the loop. FOUNDATION AND EMPIRE captures the melting process of an ice block, in which is frozen $1,000, through time lapse videography. The...

Antony Gormley (British, b.1950)You, 2006Cast iron sculptureGift of Robert F. Vagt ’69 and Ruth Anne Vagt in honor ofAshley Vagt-Buford ’94 and Lindsay Vagt ’01 I first encountered this sculpture during the first weeks of my freshman year on a late-night walk back from the library to my dorm. In the dark and my homework-induced delirium, I mistook this sculpture for a living, breathing person, and hurried back to my room. It was not until the next day when I passed by the courtyard between the library and Chambers again that I realized it was not a creepy man who...

This week, we are kicking off our new Alumni Highlight series with Elena Paul '85. I had the opportunity to talk with Paul who has worn many hats throughout her career that merge the legal and the artistic. Paul knew she wanted to be a lawyer in the arts ever since she participated in the Davidson in Washington program, where she observed lawyers at the External Affairs Department of the National Gallery of Art.  Having matriculated at Harvard Law School directly after Davidson, Paul reflects on how Harvard differed from Davidson in ways she didn’t expect. She discusses a sense...

André Kertész (Hungarian, 1894-1985)Underwater Swimmer, August 31, 1917, Esztergom1917Gelatin silver print7 x 9.5 inGift of Walter Young MacDonald, Class of 1964 André Kertész is commonly attributed to the saying, “seeing is not enough, you have to feel what you photograph." These words prompt an important question: Can one ‘feel’ a photo? Although there is no exact answer to this question, one can definitely ‘feel’ something while gazing through Kertész’s collection. Simple pictures of everyday life, riddled with the beauty of contrast and distortion, Kertész can show the viewer a snapshot of the world through his eyes. Born in Budapest in...